Fierce Healthcare January 12, 2024
Noah Tong

A MedPAC meeting on the status of Medicare Advantage held Friday began with numbers on enrollment and insights into coding diagnoses, before devolving into contentious debate over the quality of the report and whether the program is a good development for healthcare in the country.

Brian Miller, an assistant professor of medicine at John’s Hopkins University, was at the center of complaints toward the status report compiled by policy analysts, arguing that the report only highlighted the negatives of the program and that past suggestions of his have not been taken into consideration.

Because Miller believed the report was decidedly anti-Medicare Advantage, he challenged the analysts to name three positive things about the program, calling into question the objectivity of...

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